McCredie, George

Architect and engineer with Scottish heritage who was given charge of the cleansing, lime washing and demolition in The Rocks area after the outbreak of plague in 1900. His photographic record of the housing and poverty of the area remains an extraordinary reminder of 1900s Sydney.

AL and G McCredie Architects

McCredie, Arthur

Scots

Scots have been in Sydney from earliest European contact, with Forby Sutherland, a young Scottish crew member on the Endeavour, buried at Sutherland in 1770. Scots have played important roles in all facets of Sydney's history. While the Scots can seem to be 'invisible immigrants', without a clearly distinctive culture, Scottish professions, industry, religion and education have been influential in Sydney's development since the arrival of the First Fleet.

Painting Old Sydney

Just over a century ago, a unique collection of paintings opened a window to the urban life of the Rocks and Millers Point before their major transformation. No part of Sydney had been depicted so intensively. The Old Sydney Exhibition succeeded in bringing the loss of Old Sydney to the attention of the public, and so planted the seeds of the heritage conservation movement.